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Programming with OmpSs?-2

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Quick Overview

OmpSs?-2 is a programming model composed of a set of directives and library routines that can be used in conjunction with a high-level programming language (such as C, C++ or Fortran) in order to develop concurrent applications. Its name originally comes from two other programming models: OpenMP and StarSs?. The design principles of these two programming models constitute the fundamental ideas used to conceive the OmpSs? philosophy.

OmpSs?-2 thread-pool execution model differs from the fork-join parallelism implemented in OpenMP.

A task is the minimum execution entity that can be managed independently by the runtime scheduler. Task dependences let the user annotate the data flow of the program and are used to determine, at runtime, if the parallel execution of two tasks may cause data races.

The reference implementation of OmpSs?-2 is based on the Mercurium source-to-source compiler and the Nanos6 runtime library:

The reader is encouraged to visit the following links for additional information:

Quick Setup on DEEP System

We highly recommend to log in a cluster module (CM) node to begin using OmpSs?-2. To request an entire CM node interactively, please execute the following command:

srun --partition=dp-cn --nodes=1 --ntasks=48 --ntasks-per-socket=24 --ntasks-per-node=48 --pty /bin/bash -i

The command above is consistent with the actual hardware configuration of the cluster module with hyper-threading enabled. In this particular case, the command srun --partition=dp-cn --nodes=1 --pty /bin/bash -i would have yielded a similar request.

OmpSs?-2 has already been installed on DEEP and can be used by simply loading the following modules:

Remember that OmpSs??-2 uses thread-pool execution model which means that it permanently uses all the threads present on the system. The reader check the system affinity by running the NUMA command numactl --show:

$ numactl --show
policy: bind
preferred node: 0
physcpubind: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 
cpubind: 0 
nodebind: 0 
membind: 0 

as well as the Nanos6 command nanos6-info --runtime-details | grep List:

$ nanos6-info --runtime-details | grep List
Initial CPU List 0-11,24-35
NUMA Node 0 CPU List 0-35
NUMA Node 1 CPU List 

Notice that both commands return consistent outputs and, even though an entire node with two sockets has been requested, only the first NUMA node (i.e. socket) has been correctly bind. As a result, only 48 threads of the first socket (0-11, 24-35), from which 24 are physical and 24 logical (hyper-threading enabled), are going to be utilised whilst the other 48 threads available on the second socket will remain idle. Therefore, the system affinity showed above is not correct.

System affinity can be used to specify, for example, the ratio of MPI and OmpSs?-2 processes for a hybrid application and can be modified by user request in different ways:

File Systems

On the DEEP-EST system, three different groups of filesystems are available:

The users home folders are placed on the shared GPFS filesystems. With the advent of the new user model at JSC (?JUMO), the shared filesystems are structured as follows:

The DEEP-EST system doesn't mount the $SCRATCH and $ARCHIVE filesystems, as it is expected to provide similar functionalities with its own parallel filesystems.

The following table summarizes the characteristics of the file systems available in the DEEP-EST and DEEP-ER (SDV) systems:

Stripe Pattern Details

It is possible to query this information from the deep login node, for instance:

manzano@deep $ fhgfs-ctl --getentryinfo /work/manzano
Path: /manzano
Mount: /work
EntryID: 1D-53BA4FF8-3BD3
Metadata node: deep-fs02 [ID: 15315]
Stripe pattern details:
+ Type: RAID0
+ Chunksize: 512K
+ Number of storage targets: desired: 4

manzano@deep $ beegfs-ctl --getentryinfo /sdv-work/manzano
Path: /manzano
Mount: /sdv-work
EntryID: 0-565C499C-1
Metadata node: deeper-fs01 [ID: 1]
Stripe pattern details:
+ Type: RAID0
+ Chunksize: 512K
+ Number of storage targets: desired: 4

Or like this:

manzano@deep $ stat -f /work/manzano
  File: "/work/manzano"
    ID: 0        Namelen: 255     Type: fhgfs
Block size: 524288     Fundamental block size: 524288
Blocks: Total: 120178676  Free: 65045470   Available: 65045470
Inodes: Total: 0          Free: 0

manzano@deep $ stat -f /sdv-work/manzano
  File: "/sdv-work/manzano"
    ID: 0        Namelen: 255     Type: fhgfs
Block size: 524288     Fundamental block size: 524288
Blocks: Total: 120154793  Free: 110378947  Available: 110378947
Inodes: Total: 0          Free: 0

See ?http://www.beegfs.com/wiki/Striping for more information.

Additional infos

Detailed information on the BeeGFS Configuration can be found ?here.

Detailed information on the BeeOND Configuration can be found ?here.

Detailed information on the Storage Configuration can be found ?here.

Detailed information on the Storage Performance can be found ?here.

Notes

user@deep $ cd /usr/local/deep-er/sdv-benchmarks/synthetic/ior
user@deep $ jube2 result benchmarks

user@deep $ cd /usr/local/deep-er/sdv-benchmarks/synthetic/mdtest
user@deep $ jube2 result benchmarks